Bonkers Blog August 2014

There
has been a surprise development outside Bedonwell Infants School following complaints extending back 20 years
about the footpath access being extremely narrow. More recently the cudgels were taken up by Mr. Chris
Attard who has a child at the school but Bexley council failed to get permission to move the fence and
their priority, goodness knows why, was to preserve the car parking spaces.
The details are here.

Is there any other school in Bexley where car parking right outside the school gate is encouraged?

Chris protested about the lack of progress and his two year struggle against bureaucracy just a couple of weeks ago
at the council meeting but
the exchange was verging on the acrimonious and it looked to me like he was banging his
head against a brick wall.

Then this (Photo 2) happened a day or two ago. The path became a few inches wider. It
should help very thin people walk a bit closer to the fence and maybe it will be
possible for two buggies to pass with care.

I asked Chris if he was tipped off in advance that developments were afoot, but
the answer was no. I doubt there will ever be any acknowledgement that a UKIP
candidate at the recent election may have made a difference, albeit a little one
and nothing like what was originally thought necessary by both Chris and
officialdom.